12 SWISS FLOWERS. 



13^000 feet. Many a plant thus put in fresh would staud 

 as good a chance as one carefully brought down in a case 

 and spread out according to rule. 



In saying this, we do not refer to persons who have 

 ample time and means at their disposal ; we rather give a 

 hint to the many who have much to do in little time, and 

 who, like a friend o£ ours, will be apt to find themselves 

 nodding in the very act of attempting to arrange a fine 

 collection after a long day's walk. Any who stay some 

 time in a good centre for plants — ladies especially — may 

 find it answer well to take more pains with their collection. 

 One secret of having a good one will be to dry a great many 

 specimens, out of which two or three may turn out very 

 well. Even the inferior ones will be much improved by 

 being nicely mounted, and may often be very useful for 

 study ; they, therefore, should not be hastily thrown away. 

 If known to have any zeal in making such collections, 

 travellers will frequently receive kindly sympathy and 

 help from their fellow-travellers, the mountain-climbers, 

 who, when they reach the limit of vegetation, will often 

 gather some of the highest blossoms for those collecting 

 below. 



Remembering the way in which some of the plants grow, 

 apparently almost within reach, but yet in reality where it 

 is necessary to take some very dangerous footsteps in order 

 to get at them, it may be well to suggest that, in collecting 



